Upcoming changes to benefits
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yes but Starmer is all for the echr so if it went that high would he go against their ruling ? He couldn’t then refuse to go against them for other rulings so easily.
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That is definately true and terrifying, but I think the one difference is (hopefully) an important one. Stammer is a former lawyer, he will very much want to - at least on the surface - project that he is very much obeying and upholding the law, becuase it's important to his labour branding and an attack line they can use on the Tories constantly (although this is less important with their majority). Yes Stammer will duck and dive and skirt around things - but if (and I really hope they do) charities and organisations take the govt to court (I'm thinking Disabilities At 2010?) it won't look good for Stammer personally since he likes to claim he upholds the law. The only hope is Stammer will want to avoid this. Part of this is about how Strammer wants to be seen. There are things that are important to every leader even tyrants and image is always one. Trump unfortunetely won partly because his lawlessness appeals to certain people. But I do completely see your point and it's a terrifying tread.
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if this isn’t about getting money back to the treasury then honestly it looks like being cruel for the sake of being cruel (dwp making disabled lives difficult for ‘s***s and giggles’)
This makes the optics look so much worse - no 10 are putting extra spades to that hole they are digging 🙄
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I can absolutely promise you that the reason they extended your award doesn’t have anything to do with any reforms.
They are so backlogged that almost everyone I’ve seen talking about their PIP being up for review has had their award extended for a year. It just means that they haven’t got around to looking at your review form/evidence (if you sent any) yet, because they have such a huge pile to get through, so they’re extending awards so there isn’t a gap in payments etc. I believe this started during covid and has rightly continued.
It has nothing to do with any reforms because they haven’t even been announced yet. It’s just standard procedure at the moment, I promise.
Please, please know that you are so important and your life has so much value and meaning. You are NOT a leech. The only leeches are the ones sitting smugly in their offices right now, eating their luxury taxpayer funded lunches and punching down on vulnerable people because they have no morals. They are proof that work doesn’t automatically make you a better person. You matter SO much.If all you can do today is lie in bed — and this goes for everyone — then that’s enough. Try and read or watch something lighthearted, and have some comfort food or a hot drink. Keep hydrated, even if all you can manage is sips of water. We are in this together and we will support each other through this. People are ready to fight for us — disability campaigners, medical professionals, the MPs that still have backbones and empathy…
Giving up, as tempting as it is, is a win for them. They want us to be silent and subservient. Well good luck to them, because we won’t be!
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I've heard all the stuff about pip but nothing about ESA unless that is lcwra. Does anyone know what is happening with that?
I get pip and esa for my anxiety and depression and am struggling with elderly family that I help look after so I'm not sure what to do.
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We will know more tommorow when the government make a statement.
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I’ve read that the disability cuts are to be watered down, hopefully this is for all benefits not just the pip freeze
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You are absolutely spot on 💯 %. When I got Covid in Nov 20 I had no temperature regulation it was 38 and 40 degrees for into 3 wks only coming down to 38 after taking round the clock paracetamol, I felt i was cooking and wondered what on earth is this doing to my body, that was when my bowel problems started and a total of 5 different diagnoses, I always forget one or two of them. I've had 36 good days since 17.11.20 no exaggeration it's heartbreaking really. I know people have worse illnesses but this makes me housebound which I've not coped well with and none of my medications work. Or diets, I eat every other day which is pretty miserable but that's more cos of cost but I'm not complaining as I've got my dogs so my choice and I don't want to lose them. They keep me sane or just about on the right side of sane mostly!
There's a research professor at Derby Uni i wrote to in 2023, I emailed him this weekend as it was on the news last week that they've started anti viral drug trials (for Long Covid). He's agreed to put me on their database for possible inclusion next year when they're rolling it out wider. I've wanted that for so long but it's a bit scary prospect too. On the one hand it gives me hope and I think I couldn't be any worse but then on the other hand, it's drugs, I don't know what they are yet, so the risks could be too high. I've at least got time to think about it and hope they have results from the current trial/any adverse effects. And it depends where it takes place as I struggle to get anywhere.
Sorry I do go off on a tangent 🙄😬 i think Liz Kendall is talking at 230pm but can't imagine she's got much to say yet.
I hope you are OK, I love it when I see your posts, I keep saying thank god for Scope it is SO helpful a place to come. My MH issues mostly rears it's ugly head when I have other trauma or what I perceive as trauma, like lost my job, health, my home, my mum, then my next job, my sisters (estranged) in the last 3 yrs. I try to be grateful though, I adore my dogs who are my world and am working on building my courage and resilience. My epitaph will probably say 'she was a work in progress' 🤣 or worse, 'a piece of work' ha ha.
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Yes I hope that they are pressured. Most want a wealth tax which would be much fairer however there are so many near me taking the micky on expensive bikes selling drugs etc, they should be targeted first
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did you have covid jabs
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if it’s about getting ppl too sick to work into work why are concentrating on pip which a lot of claimants get and work
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Yes I emailed Timms nothing, yet I posted the link before of him visiting scope, and listening to them and making out he was supportive of disabled people, He's done Jack **** , he said the dwp needs replacing. Rachel reeves is useless, she needs replacing, can't stand her voice, if she says growth one more time I scream. There all on Facebook including starmer, putting out pictures of him talking to zelensky on zoom trying to be like Churchill, and failing miserably
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I think poppy is taking a break from the forum
At the end of the day she is not a paid employee of scope and she has provided help and answers to other members posts from the goodness of her heart
She hasn’t shared much of her personal life and I can’t remember many occasions she has asked other members for help & support in the same way she has given so many of us over the years
If she is stepping back and concentrating in prioritising herself and her family whilst all these chaos is going on then I’m happy she is putting herself first
once things calm down I hope she comes back, if only for daily life chit chats 💖4 -
Honestly I'm scared my enhanced is for autism, mobility is standard even though I struggle to walk, even worse now, with my new conditions
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I also have ibs as secondary to my fibromyalgia. Migraine ( another fibromyalgia symptom) also triggers it. Any stress starts it off . Then I had Covid I believe 4 times. Always goes to my stomach which never recovers fully. I take probiotics which I think helps .
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I'm more worried about wca hope your move going well and your mum's doing well
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I think it will have to happen doctor first do you think you have any traits of anything else ? If you do tell doctor everything over last 30 years till today he may refer you for therapy or mental health team that really would be first port of call I understand not wanting a label I was same for years but yes definitely start with doctor get your therapist to write a letter to take to doctor and go from there p
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Hello.
Was just browsing and yeah Labour's really bad Blair tribute act is going to bite them on the Left where the Greens are making headway across the country though primarily in more University oriented places.
Labour are the party for working people but they were the party which cared for the most vulnerable in society.
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I still cant fathom a G7 country a permanent member of the UN security council
the UK keeps getting warned about its treatment of disabled people.
this is why various MP's want out of the ECHR, You know its heading there.
I keep hearing social media posts about it being the Green paper and various deals
will be made to water it down, But this level of stress is worse than 2010. Its 100% on Purpose
They bailed on Non **** taxes, Taxing Gambling firms and of course the windfall tax on Energy.
Economists have told her in meetings the lower 50% of the country *all of us
are the ones not only power growth through putting any money back into the Economy
but any cuts would 100% wipe out her plans for Growth unless they rejoin the EU.
The only Glimmer I see in this nightmare even more moderate journalists seem to be reporting Labour MP's are deeply unhappy and the ones who have a Majority they know will be almost certain defeat next time are reporting 1-5 of the people they were voted by are on PIP.
Its like Talking to a brick wall, So wont amend her Fiscal rules but daily they say the Global situation has changed, they want to avoid "chaos" they might want to look at the shambles in America and still try and say her Fiscal rules wont be changed. The Security of being an EU member has gone.
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IIf You look on gov.uk says from 17th March changes to wca
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